liferea is completely invisible when running on xubuntu

[Forest]

The patch recently applied to liferea for Unity messaging menu support (port-to-messaging-menu.patch) broke liferea on xubuntu. It eliminated liferea's system tray icon, thereby making liferea inaccessible in xfce when running minimized or started in a minimized state (as is the case for most people who let it auto-start at login time).

Here is the changelog entry corresponding to the offending patch:

> liferea (1.8.10-0ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low
>
> * Port to messaging-menu. (LP: #1040259)
> -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:55:30 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

As a temporary workaround, I've made a package for raring which does not have the unity patches (I grabbed the package from Debian): https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/mediahacks/+packages

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

It's also broken on enlightenment/e17.

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

Still broken on 13.10.

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

Still broken on 14.04 (beta)

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

And still broken in the 14.04 final release.

[Jakub T. Jankiewicz (jcubic)]

I think liferea changed how notification is displayed, I've installed XUbuntu 14.04, and I got envelope icon with liferea inside, and it show all new feeds in a menu. But the icon don't change so you need to click to see if there are new posts.

[Forest (foresto)]

Still broken on 14.04 three months after release.

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

Suprise, surprise: still broken in 14.10 beta.

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

Back to Debian, everything works fine there.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

I guess this is why I don't get a panel tray icon on ubuntu MATE

[Forest (foresto)]

This regression is still present in vivid.

[gwern (gwern0)]

I can confirm this is still present on a fresh install of vivid/15.04 with MATE & liferea package 1.10.12-1ubuntu1.

On initial launch, Liferea just seems to hang and in `strace` it is stuck in a loop (`top` indicating <1% CPU usage) at

    recvmsg(7, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"U\2;\1SP]\3\3\20\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\20\20\20\20\0\0\3\37\205\3\0\0", 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 32
    recvmsg(7, 0x7ffd814d5550, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
    recvmsg(7, 0x7ffd814d5530, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
    poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 4, 3654) = 1 ([{fd=7, revents=POLLIN}])
    recvmsg(7, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"U\2;\1@R]\3\3\24\4\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\24\24\24\24\24\0\0\3\37B\2\0\0", 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 32
    recvmsg(7, 0x7ffd814d5550, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
    recvmsg(7, 0x7ffd814d5530, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

However, if forced to show using `liferea --mainwindow-state="shown"`, then it appears. (Subsequent invocations also need `--mainwindow-state` as well, it seems.)

[gwern (gwern0)]

(Incidentally, this issue does not appear with the MATE/Debian testing system I was using up until a day or two ago and only showed up after switching to Ubuntu.)

[aleandro (aleandrodasilva)]

Still present in ubuntu 14.04 on august 2015. It appears that the window of liferea won't come up when you click from the top bar menu (where is located thunderbird too). Even from a terminal it doesn't show up.